Travel Blogs from Lagos

... Indigo. -- "How did that happen? He's a terrorist." "Yes, but passionate. My husband at the time was boring. Now I am ready to run away with you." The theatre was now mopped up and back in business following the recent massacre. They had a new production in which they wanted the sister to appear. If she agreed to remove her headscarf during the performance, she could save Indigo. The high school boys would be up in arms. Various people ...

We landed in Libreville, Gabon to let some passengers off and to pick up some others. After all the departing passengers got off the plane, the flight attendants verified the owner of each carry-on bag in the overhead bins. Each of us had to claim our bags. This took several minutes but was a good security measure. Then they sprayed the plane for mosquitos. They reassured us that this spray was not harmful to us. How does it kill mosquitos, then? We took off and headed to Lagos, ...

getting here was quite easy. I caught the metro in Lisbon to the bus station, then on to the bus..very comfy,with wifi and a "hostess" who sat beside the driver and bought around a little menu for snacks and drinks that you could buy. The trip took 3 1/2 hours but went quickly.

today I get back on a bus for a 6 hour trip to Seville....hope it is as comfy!

Lagos is the place to go if you would like to experience the luxury of an armed escort and the oddity of standing out as an obvious foreigner. Since I once attended a montessori school where my skin color was not in the majority, I was strangely at ease. It helped that one of my collegues was from Lagos and told the rest of us about the place from her own local ...

We board Van #3 at 8:54. I see I sign – we are at Alimosho Motor Park. We depart a few minutes later, then the van pulls into a gas station. It doesn’t appear that we actually get any fuel, however, so unsure what that was all about. Again, there’s a massive traffic jam the other direction but we are moving fast. Looks like Yomi gathered some good intelligence. As we pass the Lagos airport, I’m stunned that the streetlights are all on ...